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24 January 2013 - 16:00

Video: Stig versus stunt plane in Sydney

Preparations for Sydney's TopGear Festival have kicked off - and rather spectacularly, with organisers racing a stunt plane against the Stig, at 150km/h, along the front straight of Sydney Motorsport Park this morning.

Stig was on hand to help launch TopGear Festival Sydney, where he (or it) will join fellow TopGear stars Jeremy Clarkson and James May in a two-day TopGear and motoring feast, on the weekend of March 9-10.

So far, organisers have confirmed:

- Clarkson, May and the Stig (of course). And Shane Jacobson, of TopGear Australia fame.

- The Stig cutting laps around the track in the world's rarest, most priceless supercars.

- Clarkson racing a currently unnamed, but "world renowned athlete" over a 100m sprint. (Clarkson will be driving a car, not running.)

- A man jumping over a Lamborghini as it drives underneath him. At 100km/h.

- F1 vs V8 Supercar: Mark Webber racing a Red Bull Formula One car against Jamie Whincup, who will be in a V8 Supercar.

- F1 vs V8 Supercar (old school): watch a 1980 Williams Formula One car take on a 1977 Ford Falcon Australian touring car. And not just any F1 car, but the 1980 world championship-winning car, and driven by the champion himself, Alan Jones. The Falcon, Allan Moffat's race car in the 1970s, will be driven by Australian touring car legend Colin Bond.